GuideWell Innovation announced the launch of Health+Accel, a new one-week pitch competition to fast-track entrepreneurs with innovations that address aging well.

The workshop is scheduled for Oct. 30. The winner gets a $20,000 cash prize.

The event will be held at GuideWell Innovation Center in Lake Nona Medical City.

The facility, designed by RS&H, recently won two design awards from the International Interior Design Association, including Project of the Year in the 2017 IIDA North Florida Design Award Competition.

The building also is getting a new tenant.

So far, GuideWell Innovation’s Collaborative Resources Ecosystem, or CoRE, has been the building’s anchor tenant. Soon Certara, a company that uses modeling and simulation to help scientists during the drug development process, is opening an office on the second floor of the building.

Company officials said in a news release they’re planning to work closely with their neighbor, the University of Florida’s College of Pharmacy and Center for Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology.

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None of the children’s hospitals in Orlando — or Florida — made U.S. News and World Reports’ 2017-18 Best Children’s Hospitals Honor Roll, which includes 10 hospitals.

The hospital ranked 21st in diabetes and endocrinology care. It ranked 43rd in cardiology and heart surgery, behind UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital, All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, and Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami. Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston ranked first in cardiology and heart surgery.

Babyscripts, a virtual women’s care platform based in Washington, D.C., has raised nearly $6 million in funding, with Ysios Capital as the lead investor. The company has been collaborating with Florida Hospital to manage high-risk pregnancies and was the winner of Florida Hospital’s InnovationX, a “Shark Tank”-style competition, in 2015.

Children’s Home Society of Florida has been reaccredited by the Council on Accreditation, which awards the distinction to organizations that demonstrate best practice standards in the field of human services. Less than 20 percent of organizations in the nation achieve a full accreditation from the council.

Debby’s House of Hearing has been suspended in several counties, including Orange, from participating in the Medicaid program. Such suspensions by Agency for Health Care Administration typically result from failure to pay funds due to the agency within a required timeframe.

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The late Dr. Salvatore Silvestri, a central figure in Orange County’s emergency medicine and public safety, was inducted into the Larry S. Jordan EMS Hall of Fame at the Florida Department of Health’s 2017 Excellence in Emergency Medical Services Awards in June. He died unxpectedly in March.

Dr. Edwin Hernández is the new president of Adventist University of Health Sciences in Orlando, succeeding Dr. David Greenlaw, who founded the university. Greenlaw is retiring at the end of July.